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The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What happened before the Big Bang? Everyone is flummoxed by such questions, so there is, in a sense, no gulf between experts and the rest.

Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.